Legal Question in Intellectual Property in Florida

A customer wanted me to create a fiberglass body kit for a car for $12k and I accepted to do just that but without relinquishing my rights to the mold of the body kit unless I received payment $50k in total for the creation of the kit and the mold to market the kit(verbal agreement) . The customer had a sketch of a design he wanted on the car but during the actual creation several pieces was altered to give a more appealing look by me with approval of the client. When the kit was completed he gave me $7k. So he asked me to handle some other projects for him that involved painting a few of his cars, and creating a lip to add to the body kit I created. He has a complete body kit now and he refuses to pay for the work I did for him and trying to hold the monies unless I give him the original mold that we verbally agreed he had to pay $50,000 for and he owes me money for the kit and other projects I have done. He wants to patent the mold as his design but it is both of ours.He refuses to jointly patently, what can I do?


Asked on 8/16/12, 1:10 am

1 Answer from Attorneys
R. Jason de Groot R. Jason de Groot, P.A.

Get to a patent attorney and patent it just slightly differently. You have invested a lot of time and creativity in this. How it could ever get marketed is another issue.

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Answered on 8/16/12, 1:34 pm


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